pg 47 to 67

In this section of the book he talks about the war in Iraq and relates it to the war he did coverage on which was in 1993.

• When he was in college he read a lot about the Vietnam war and thought it would be exciting to do coverage on it


• He got his first job at ABC News which involved answering the telephone and getting coffee


• He had a difficult time getting interviews for anchorman positions even with a Yale education


• He got his big break through when he went to Thailand to film a story on Burmese refugees. Later he sold the video he filmed to Channel One and knew from that moment that this was the career which was meant for him

Sarajevo March 1993

• This wasn't the first war he did coverage on but had said it is the "deadliest"


• Channel One hired him but he was still shooting stories with his home video camera


• He was afraid while investing the war in Bosnia and even admitted that he was afraid to sleep in his hotel room at night because he thought someone might try to kill him


• While traveling through Sarajevo, the company he was working for didn't even buy him an armoured vehicle, which made it more frightening shooting a story there


• Before leaving Sarajevo he was doing one last coverage when a gun shot was fired where he was. He wasn't sure if the gun shot was fired at him but it was very close. His camera was set up during the gun fire and captured the whole thing on film. While replaying the video he saw the scared look on his.

After he got back from Sri Lanka

• His got great reviews for his work in Sri Lanka and was asked to go back to Iraq to do coverage on the war


• When he went to Iraq he experienced driving across the most dangerous road in the world which is "Route Irish"


• On this eight mile route there was cases of suicide attackers, kidnappings and snipers, which made him think that this would be a good spot for a story. He wasn't able to make a story because his guards didn't think it was a good idea due to security problems